E. M. Forster: A Literary LifeForster's literary career is assessed in relation to works that mark its phases: his suburban novels, the Indian novel, the BBC talks, and first and last, his short fiction. This study traces evidences of his keen awareness of political and social undercurrents as discovered in the works: the importance of personal relations, culture as a precious heritage, and the creative artist as definer of cultural values and encourager of those who should preserve them. |
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... literature and art and I regard with foreboding and resentment their offers to turn an artist upside down . ' He had ' stopped creating rather than become uncreative : ... It's rather that the scraps of imagination and observation in me ...
... literature and art and I regard with foreboding and resentment their offers to turn an artist upside down . ' He had ' stopped creating rather than become uncreative : ... It's rather that the scraps of imagination and observation in me ...
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... literature , music , the fine arts , the decorative arts . He believed that it is art that ' distinguishes us from the animals ... if we stop practising it we shall not rise higher . " In 1946 he expanded this into a messsage about the ...
... literature , music , the fine arts , the decorative arts . He believed that it is art that ' distinguishes us from the animals ... if we stop practising it we shall not rise higher . " In 1946 he expanded this into a messsage about the ...
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